Example sentences of "[v-ing] away at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 2 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 3 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 4 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 5 | By picking away at every factual link in the chain from furnace to fishless lake , Britain 's electricity industry hoped to avoid any restrictions on atmospheric discharges , whether ‘ arbitrary ’ or not . |
| 6 | Slogging away at the military hospital , sickened by the pain she saw and more muddled than ever , she decided that when the war was over she would become a tramp . |
| 7 | I 'm the sort of fellow who , after a hard day slogging away at the National Theatre , goes home and dips into a much-treasured , well-thumbed copy of Pope or Pepys . |
| 8 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 9 | You can find me through the Friends , ’ and he pressed his horse 's flanks , moving away at a steady pace . |
| 10 | wearing away at an interior shore : |
| 11 | Similarly , there is no point in heaving away at a recalcitrant waste pipe if you intend to replace it , so you may as well cut through it a short distance from the wall with a hacksaw . |
| 12 | Sitting in the compartment in my dark city suit , working away at the bright knitting caused a lot of second glances from passers-by , but usually ensured I kept the compartment to myself . |